mke2fs

[David Stern <kotsya@u.washington.edu>]

Hi,

I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs.  I'm attempting to
format /dev/sda16 and message says:

>  debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16
>  mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
>  /dev/sda16 is entire device, not just one partition!
>  Proceed anyway? (y,n)

But /dev/sda16 is just a 500MB partition, not an entire device:

  [..]
  /dev/sda4          147      147      527  3060382+   5  Extended
  [..]
  /dev/sda16         463      463      527   522081   83  Linux native

I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail.  Why
does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entire drive?

Thanks,

David Stern


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .